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Our Careers At Rice Ambassador program is an opportunity for Rice staff who are not only passionate about their own professional development, but also passionate about paying it forward and supporting other in their development journey. Please email us at CareersAtRice@rice.edu if you would like to learn about this NEW way to enrich your role in professional development at Rice and be a champion for others.

RiceLeaders is designed to carefully and systematically support the development of a university-wide team with the tools and skills necessary to achieve our vision as a great research institution.

Our Target is to improve the collective capacity of the university to achieve our goals by expanding individual performance and leveraging individual performance through more effective team performance. As a result of completing the program, each cohort member will collaborate more effectively and support fellow and future groups of staff and faculty in this program as well as other development efforts. Seven cohorts of faculty and staff have participated in the program since its inception in 2007.

Researchers over the past thirty years have found that the moments that make the biggest difference in our effectiveness are situations where we have to communicate with one or more people. Specifically, the way we behave in the following two crucial moments has a profound effect on our success:

Crucial Conversations: Communicating when the stakes are high, opinions differ, and emotions run strong.

With both skill sets, people know how to surface the best ideas, make the highest-quality decisions, and handle tough or persistent gaps in performance and expectations. You can find details on upcoming dates, how to register, etc. by visiting the Training and Professional Development section on our site. We hope you will join us!

Through hands-on exercises and video case studies of modern-day change agents, you’ll learn how to use six sources of influence to overcome your most persistent challenges. Influencer training will teach you how to:

Diagnose the web of causes behind any problem behaviors and create powerful strategies for driving change.

Identify a handful of high-leverage behaviors that, if changed, will lead to desired results.

Rely less on formal authority and more on ways to motivate and enable others to alter their behavior.

Use the powerful Influencer model to develop and apply a robust influence strategy to anything from small- to large-scale cultural transformations.

For course details and registration information, please visit our Training and Professional Development page or email us at learn@rice.edu.

We hope you join us each month as we offer this development opportunity for supervisors at Rice. Each competency – focused session is designed to include learning, peer interaction, hands-on application and resources to facilitate development both during the session, as well as a follow-up message with curated resources for additional, employee- led development. Oh…and most important…lunch is provided! We hope to see you there!

Check out the schedule (dates and topics) by visiting the Supervisor Development section of out site or email us at learn@rice.edu.

Careers At Rice, our talent management strategy, officially launched in 2016. We will continue to provide news, resources, programs, training, and so much more to develop, support and recognize our Rice staff. We encourage you to sign up for our Careers At Rice newsletter and visit the Careers At Rice webpage for regular updates and resources.